According to fireflyfans.net, Sci-Fi picked up the airing rights to Firefly and will be airing all fifteen hours of the show in the United States, starting on Friday, July 22. 
I remember someone saying that Fox had decided to prevent airing of the show for ten years, but that’s obviously not the case anymore. Either way, it should be a good way to bring in new viewers before “Serenity” comes out, especially if they air the episodes in order, starting with the pilot, this time.
Cool. That makes a lot of sense as a lead-in to the opening of the film, Friday night in this case is a good choice as that is apparently Sci-fi’s strongest night, and no matter what the result, it’s great that the show will get a US broadcast run again, one hopes in the correct episode order. Maybe only stay-at-home nerds who already know of the show will watch it, but whatever.
If you’re talking about a thread here, what I recall being said was that FOX owned the rights to create new eps for ten years. Nothing about FOX having broadcast rights.
Well I’ll watch these, since I’ve only ever seen the pilot (on DVD).
I feel that this is an incredibly good sign that maybe, just maybe, there’s enough buzz about the series that it’ll get picked up again by SciFi. Shiny.